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Reading: Casandra Lopez, Sam Roxas-Chua, John Sibley Williams

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Join Mother Focault’s for the Portland book launch of Casandra Lopez’s powerful new collection Brother Bullet, just released from University of Arizona Press. Joining her will be Oregon poets Sam Roxas-Chua and John Sibley Williams. Casandra Lopez is a Chicana and California Indian (Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño) writer who’s received support from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf and Jackstraw. She’s been selected for residencies with the School of Advanced Research and Hedgebrook. Her chapbook, Where Bullet Breaks, was published by the Sequoyah National Research Center and her poetry collection, Brother Bullet, was just released from University of Arizona. She’s a founding editor of As/Us: A Space For Women Of The World and teaches at Northwest Indian College. https://casandramlopez.com/ Sam Roxas-Chua is a poet and multi-disciplinary artist from Eugene, Oregon. His…

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Future Feels 2030 – Launch Party

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

Come by Outlet on July 20th from 6-9pm to celebrate the launch of Grace Mervin’s (@endoplasmic_reticulum) pop-up collaborative exhibit @futurefeels2030, as well as the release of the second edition of the book they wrote & self published about climate change & the future. There will be beverages, snacks, wonderful humans & plenty of feels! Please BYO cup so we can reduce waste! This project is entirely self funded, any & all support is greatly appreciated.

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Marvels Epilogue release with Kurt Busiek

Excalibur Comics 2444 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Come join legendary writer Kurt Busiek at your friendly neighborhood Excalibur Comics for the release of the Marvels Epilogue! 5:30-8 PM on July 24th! Don't miss this event decades in the making! An all-new standalone epilogue to the classic MARVELS graphic novel written by Kurt Busiek and fully-painted by Alex Ross! A "Marvels" look at the "all-new, all-different" X-Men of the 1970s. In this 16-page story, Alex and Kurt bring Marvel's world to brilliant, realistic life one last time, as the now-retired Phil Sheldon and his daughters, in Manhattan to see the Christmas lights, find themselves in the middle of a clash between the outsider heroes and the deadly Sentinels, giving them a close-up perspective on the mutant experience. Also featuring a behind-the-scenes look at…

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Deep Overstock Issue #6: Westerns Release Party and Reading

ILWU Local 5 Union Hall 920 West Burnside, Portland, OR, United States

Yeehaw, y’all!!! Please join us this Friday the 18th at 7:30pm at the ILWU Local 5 Union Hall (920 W Burnside) for the release of Issue #6: Westerns 🤠 Huge thanks to the immensely talented @weirdefruit for designing our cover! Come out for readings, booze, and a rollicking good ol’ time.

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Ion the Young Shuttle Book Release!

Bridge City Comics 3725 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Following the success of this spring's Kickstarter, Ion the Young Shuttle is here! Join author, Kielen King, at Bridge City Comics to celebrate the release of Ion the Young Shuttle! Kielen will be available to sign copies and meet those of you who contributed to making this project a reality!* Missed the Kickstarter? Not to worry! There will be additional copies available at the event so stop by and pick one up! Ion is here just in time for the holidays! Grab one for your young reader or give the perfect gift to a friend with little ones! *For Kickstarter pickup: Contributors should be sure to send an email to book@iontheshuttle.com with full name and email address from the Kickstarter so Kielen can be sure…

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ALGERNON BLACKWOOD’S THE WILLOWS release party with Nathan Carson and Sam Ford

Floating World Comics 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland, OR, United States

Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows is collected with a new 12-page prequel story never published elsewhere. Join the creators on Friday, December 13th for a release party and book signing. This immortal novella of extra-dimensional weirdness on the Danube comes to vivid life in graphic comic form thanks to the incredibly detailed black-and-white linework of talented newcomer, Sam Ford. Writer Nathan Carson’s thoughtful retelling reverently preserves the plot while breathing character-driven depth into this all-time classic. Two adventurous women, one British, one Swedish, encounter strange horrors in the Hungarian wilderness of 1907. What they discover on that crumbling sandbar makes them question their sanity, fear for their lives, and revel in otherworldly strangeness. Readers familiar with the story will delight in seeing it depicted in such painstaking,…

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Holler if You Hear Me Launch

Books with Pictures 1401 SE Division Street, Portland, OR, United States

Local comics artists Ryan Alexander-Tanner and Tatum Howlett will be at Books With Pictures for a signing and presentation to celebrate the release of Holler If You Hear Me, Comic Edition. The book is an adaptation of Greg Michie’s late-90’s memoir that tells the story of a white teacher working in Chicago’s Latinx-majority Back of the Yards neighborhood. The original text was widely recognized as an alternative to typical “white savior” narratives, instead advising teachers to embrace and be changed by the culture they enter into, acknowledging the messiness and complexity of teaching, and, most importantly, providing a platform for the students to share their own stories, in their own words. Each chapter ends with a long-form interview of a student, providing them a forum…

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MOTHER IS A BODY: A Virtual Release Reading

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

*This reading will take place via Zoom PST. Please register here in advance. Please join the IPRC & Fonograf Editions for an evening of virtual readings to celebrate the release of MOTHER IS A BODY by Brandi Katherine Herrera. The event will feature readings from Lisa Wells, Lori Anderson Moseman, Dot Devota, and Brandi Katherine Herrera. Lisa Wells is the author of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World (FSG, 2021) and The Fix, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work has been published by The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, The Believer, n+1, and she writes a column for Orion Magazine called Abundant Noise. Lori Anderson Moseman’s most recent poetry collections include DARN (Delete Press, 2021), Y (The Operating…

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Stranged Writing Release Reading

The Stacks Coffeehouse 1831 N. Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

The Gravity of the Thing celebrates the release of its first anthology, Stranged Writing: A Literary Taxonomy (bit.ly/3d6z94O) on October 13th. Join us at The Stacks Coffeehouse in Portland, Oregon to hear contributors Joshua James Amberson, Alex Behr, Lucie Bonvalet, Benjamin Kessler, Matt Rebholz, and Eli Ronick read their experimental prose, poetry, and cross-genre works. The event is free to attend, and food, drinks, and Stranged Writing will be available for purchase. About the collection: Stranged Writing is an anthology of defamiliarized creative writing curated according to biological taxonomy (species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, and domain) using word count. Each hardcover edition includes a screen-printed dust jacket that transforms into unique literary organisms or book sculptures, the goal being a dimensional and tactile…

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